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Margo Jefferson, 2021. Claire Holt

Swinging on a Star

Margo Jefferson’s memoir of homage and self-creation
Blair McClendon
Paul Heyer, Text from Crush, 2020, oil and acrylic on polyester, 44 x 34".

Going Postal

A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive
Max Read
Harumi Abe, Highland 2, 2021, acrylic and gouache on canvas, 48 x 54". Courtesy the artist, all rights reserved; Photo: Stephan Göttlicher

Already Dead

Joy Williams’s cosmic apocalypse
Justin Taylor
Kerry Howley. Photo: Jordan Geiger.

Sticky Fictions

Kerry Howley’s nuanced portraits of whistleblowers and other deep-state dissidents
Tarpley Hitt
fiction
Karl Ove Knausgaard concludes his autofiction epic
James Camp
politics
Bret Easton Ellis rages against the decline of American culture
Andrea Long Chu
fiction
Ash Thayer, Matty, View from Serenity Roof #2, 1997, materials variable, 40 × 60”. Courtesy the artist
Sam Lipsyte reinvents the detective novel for the last days of punk
Lisa Borst
culture
Cover of Prince's Controversy (Warner Bros. Records, 1981).
Hilton Als’s conflicted love letter to Prince
Harmony Holiday
fiction
A new translation of Proust’s late masterpiece
Rebecca Ariel Porte
culture
Gordon Matta-Clark performing Tree Dance at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1971. © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Courtesy the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark.
The art of Gordon Matta-Clark
Sasha Frere-Jones
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